How do I wear the things in my inventory?

[Micala Ghost]

I have 'purchased' some freebies and want to know how I can wear them. Also I dropped my hair, picked it up, and have no clue how to put it back on. Someone please help me.

[Thalia Nightfire]

There are two ways to wear an item from your Inventory. You can open the Inventory window and simply drag the item onto your body, or you can select the item in the inventory window, hold down the Command key (Mac) or right mouse button (Windows) and select 'Wear' from the popup list. In either case, if the item is a body part or an item of clothing, it will appear on the appropriate part of your body (and that goes for you hair too).  You can also Wear other objects (e.g. a cup of tea) and select the part of your body to attach it to (left hand or right hand or some other part!) from the popup list.

[Velma Paine]

First, to wear anything from your inventory, you can right click it and select wear....right click the folder it's in and select add to outfit, or....if it's a complete avatar, right click the folder and select replace outfit.

If you try to wear something, and find yourself wearing a box, DON'T PANIC!....We all wear boxes at one time or another. Simply get to a sandbox or some place where you can left click the box and drag it to the ground. Once it's there, right click and open the box. You can then either elect to wear the items in the box and copy to inventory, or just copy to inventory.

Hope this helps.

[Rayge Yalin]

Oh, and as for the dropped hair. right click on it and choose take to get it back into your inventory.

[Micala Ghost]

I picked it, right clicked on it in my inventory, and it still won't come back on. This is about to drive me nutty.

[Micala Ghost]

It worked great. Thank you very much.

[Ellla McMahon]

Hello Micala, as well as the great suggestions, have a look at The Basics and the Video Tutorials from What Next? at the top of this page and check out the linked pages too.

1. Customize Your Appearance
2. Shopping in Second Life

Also see SL Wiki KB article, How do I attach and detach objects from my avatar?

Hope this helps

[Tini Jewell]

Hi Micala, the problem of trying to wear the item that you put back into your inventory may be related to SL.  There have been a number of issues for various residents (discussed in a number of groups that I'm a member of).  So, it may not be anything that you are doing wrong.  As long as you select the item in your inventory, right click and 'wear' it, it should appear.